Re: [glob2-devel] Music

[Stéphane Magnenat]

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:08:28 Max Shinn wrote:
> What is the concensus so far?  I would really like to write more music, but
> I don't know how I should do that.
>
> I still like my idea of a hybrid system.  We would be able to keep the
> current functionality, because it sounds cool on most of the mood changes. 
> But then, for the mood changes where completely different sounding music
> has to be written, we have it break at certain spots in the song.  This
> would give us more flexibility when implementing more ambiances, because we
> could choose which one it would fit better with, and make the system less
> limiting.

This might sound complicated, but why not having two layers of indirections. 
Locally, we would switch between the three musics depending on the local 
action.

More globally, we would switch between music types. In that context, music 
might be composed with the dynamic mixing in mind (I would prefer this) or 
not (but I won't force it either).

We could keep the current music for the early development stage of the colony 
and go into other types of music as the game is going forward.

What do you think ?

Have a nice day,

Steph

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